Eli5: What does Inferiority Complex mean?
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It’s when someone goes through life believing that they are never good enough.
This often leads to toxic behaviors like overcompensation, depression, self-loathing. etc.
Inferiority complexes are often casually (and often wrongly) attributed to a certain type of person. Imagine a short man who drives a lifted pickup truck, and flashes displays of wealth (fancy toys, lots of cash, designer clothes, etc.), and gets into verbal altercations all the time. One might think “he’s compensating for something”, and that something is a general feeling of inferiority, so he makes it a point to demonstrate signs of superiority and/or success all the time to hide it.
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